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small inner shrine, where the idols are placed during
festival time. A stone wall encloses a considerable space
round the temple, and this is covered with small structures
(miniature dolmens) formed of four flat stones, three being
walls, and the fourth the roof. For each person of rank,
one of these monuments is constructed, and here periodically,
and always during the annual feasts, puja (worship) is
made, not only to the spirits of the deceased chiefs, but

Fig. 49. Kuruba dolmen-like graves.
also to those of all who have died in the clan." In the
Kuruba quarter of the town of Kadur in Mysore, the
shrine of Anthargattamma is a regular dolmen beneath a
margosa (Melia Azadirachici) tree, in which the goddess is
represented by round stones imbedded in a mound of
earth. Just outside the same town, close to a sacred fig
tree (plpal, Fiats religiosa\ are two small dolmen-like
structures, in which two Kuruba Dasaris, one a centenarian,
are buried.